Produced by AWARD WINNING producers TOONTRACK MUSIC

THE LIBRARY...

• 35 Gigs & 85,000 soundfiles of unprocessed multiple mic "interactive" drum & percussion sounds providing unparrelled realism
• No pre-processed sounds, all sounds have been recorded without any pre or post processing of the sounds
• All sounds are recorded in the sequences and with the grips (left/right hand/foot) natural when playing
• Drums by Morgan Ågren (Mats&Morgan, Frank Zappa, Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects)
  
  
  and Tomas Haake (Meshuggah)
  
  

• Percussion by Mikael Emsing, Cocktail by Per Mikaelsson
• All Sounds are powered by our customized plugin
  
  

THE PLUG-IN...

• Three plugins; "Superior Drummer", Superior Percussionist" & "Superior Cocktail"
• Easy customization from our "EASY TO USE" software sampler interface
• Multiple tool configuration choices. Switch between brushes, drumsticks, rods or felt mallets. Felt
  plastic or wood bass drum beaters
• Multiple outputs with natural bleeding choices through all microphones; "Multiple Leakage Control"
• Automatic interchanging state of sounds in all microphones, for example turn off bottom wire snares and all the bleeding will change accordingly
  
  
  

• Randomized hits for non-linear performance
• Programmed bleeding modes keeping RAM usage to a minimum
• Cached loading, sampler only loads soundfiles requested by midi stream
• Automatic Velocity mapping
• Infinite rendering options when bouncing
• Transmute groups, enables natural transformation between sounds, ultimate polyphonical hihat control and much more
• Easy remapping of sounds, you just need to remap the instrument and it will apply on all sounds. No more than 5 minutes to do your favourite mapping.
• VSTi format & ReWire for PC & MAC OSX
• AU is under development, will be a free download when available
  

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
40 GB free harddisc space, DVD Drive, atleast 1024 x 768 screen resolution.

MINIMUM:
WinXP/ME/98, PIII/Athlon 500Mhz, 512MB RAM MacOSX 10.2 or higher, G3 500 Mhz, 512MB RAM

RECOMMENDED:
WinXP, PIII/Athlon 1,8 Ghz, 1,5 GB RAM MacOSX 10.2 or Higher, G4 733 Mhz, 1,5GB RAM

OVERVIEW

Upon the release of Drumkit From Hell Toontrack Music found themselves defining drumsound quality both with the musicmakers and the critics.

SOS Magazine awarded their FIVE STAR AWARD to Drumkit from Hell and it's been the top selling library in the major territories throughout 2003. EQ Magazine finished this fantastic year by awarding Drumkit From Hell their newly created EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY AWARD.

No longer was it enough recording exceptional playing and sound quality to fit other software formats. So, to be able to take the vision of how sampled drums should sound beyond what was already achieved, Toontrack had to take the process of creating the ultimate drumproduct one step further.

Toontrack had to create their own definition, their own standard. Shortly after the release of Drumkit From Hell, They started the process of recording and developing the next natural level of Drumkit from Hell sound.

...is a drumlibrary combined with the SUPERIOR-Plugin. Developed in Synergy to create real, life, live, drums

THE IDEA...

Combining the bleed between microphones provides you with a recording situation that is equivalent to having the worlds best drummers & percussionists live in your studio.

The idea behind SUPERIOR is to make a programmable environment as close to a real studiosession as possible. All leakage, that are a big part of the soundin a drum recording bleeds naturally through all mics.

SUPERIOR lets you choose wether or not you want bleeding in each mic, and if you want less bleeding, say for example you need to lower the volume of the hihat bleeding through the snare microphone, or lower the snare in the overhead microphone. No problem, you can adjust the level of any instruments bleeding through any microphone.

We promise an entirely new world of playing styles, programming and mixing capabilities. We will actually fly those drummers into your computer whenever you could wish for them and that´s for a lot less than the price of an airline ticket.

always design our products with what we need as musicproducers in mind. Here´s where you think:
Does the world need another drum/percussion library? Our answer would be no, and yes.

No as in: We don´t need another loopbased drum/percussion record that sounds amazingly much like the general midi in your 80:s synthesizer.

Yes as in: There is definetly need for a percussion product featuring great, clear percussion sounds played by a professional guy with a distinctive personal style for use in pop and rock productions. Together, the variety of drumkits offered on dfh SUPERIOR and the percussion from Mikael Emsing and Meinl will spell the most extensive hit, swish and boom library that money can buy.



with the words of the percussionist, Mr Mikael Emsing, himself:
 
"When I was contacted by the guys from Toontrack to help them out with this product, I was of course very excited, but with a few reservations. The percussion sample CD's that I've come in contact with quite honestly weren't very well adapted for the job that I and my fellow peers needed them for.
Most of the work I've done in the studio and live have not been traditional Latin or African music, but rather Rock, Pop or Jazz-type sessions. Most of the sampling CD's that I've come across, however, have been geared more towards traditional Ethnic music. So because of this we felt that there was a need for a sample CD with sounds adapted to these situations.

I have spent years studying traditional music, but I have also spent an equal amount of time trying to get some sort of a "signature" sound, or at least a somewhat personable sound, a sound that functions live as well as in the studio, a sound that has some soul to it. This was my first reservation.

I wanted to be sure that this sound came through on the sampled sounds. Much to my satisfaction the guys from Toontrack shared my vision and from the get-go we planned and recorded everything with this in mind.

Secondly, I also wanted a wide variety of sounds included on the CD. It is, given the diverse nature of the instrument quite impossible to cover all the bases and include every available instrument on the market, but my hope is that we've been able to provide the most vital instruments for making recordings in the aforementioned genres. Also I wanted to make sure that the instruments recorded where of high quality, something that I think we where able to provide through the generous help of Meinl Percussion. All the instruments are recorded in different sizes and materials. From large to small, from wood to fibreglass etc. Let me assure carrying this CD around will be a lot easier than lugging all these instruments around (thank god for cartage services by the way...).  Last but not least, in order to preserve the sound and soul that I've spoken about the sound recording had to be high-quality, and easy to use. Well, let me assure after hearing the job these guys have done with dfh I realized that this would not be a problem.

In closing, I hope you enjoy this product and find it useful. If your not interested in a high-quality, personal sound to use for your loops, go back to your general MIDI sounds now, if you still want to use this CD, it's time to get the groove going!"